Comparing Romeo And Juliet

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I still can’t quite comprehend what has just happened. I thought that by my actions I was helping them in their journey. I never anticipated for this to occur, I’m truly shocked. It was my belief that these two were in love with one-another but I didn’t know their love was so strong that they would go to the extreme of killing each other. Only if I had of known; I wouldn’t have agreed to bind them in Holy Matrimony and supplied them with the potion/brew. I only did this as I believed that this would somehow solve the never-ending feud between their two respective families, the Montague’s and the Capulet’s.

Only if I had of foreseen the consequences that may actions would ensure. I thought that what I was doing was correct in the eyes of God. But as it turns out he disapproved of my actions and not only punished the two families, but also myself. By upsetting the Lord I have committed a horrific sin, in which I’m deeply ashamed of. I truly thought that I had an opportunity to end the feud. But as it is evident I have made a right mess of everything. When Romeo and Juliet came to me originally I felt reluctant to agree to their proposal of
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I thought to myself that, this is unjust and in the eyes of the Lord everybody deserves to be free. So evidentially the next time Romeo and Juliet came to visit me I granted them the permission that they needed to get married. Even though they were still so young, I believed that they have already endured many hardships in their lives considering the constant feud between their two families and the neglect they have suffered as a consequence of this. I also believed that the Lord was giving me a sign. A sign that I could be the one whom resolves this feud and provide peace to the fair city of Verona once again. So I bound them in marriage and I thought that that was it. But little did I know the scallywags decided to fake their own deaths in order to run off

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